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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Variable cloudiness A shower in the afternoon 48° 35° 45° 34° SUNDAY MONDAY Partly sunny, a shower or two Today TUESDAY Partly sunny and chilly Sunshine and patchy clouds PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 43° 30° 42° 25° 42° 24° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 46° 35° 49° 34° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 45° 42° 71° (1892) 30° 29° 4° (1896) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 1.56" 1.48" 15.26" 11.25" 11.47" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 41° 43° 68° (1995) New Dec 17 7:15 a.m. 4:13 p.m. 3:23 p.m. 4:27 a.m. First Caldwell 44/29 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 51 45 48 53 42 44 51 49 49 49 47 46 44 50 51 54 39 46 48 50 49 51 41 45 49 48 43 Lo 42 25 30 43 21 29 39 35 34 34 28 32 31 37 43 43 27 33 35 43 27 42 31 28 43 36 30 W r pc c c pc pc c c c pc pc c c c r c pc c c r c r c c r c c NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 48 42 43 49 40 42 46 45 46 45 42 43 41 45 48 50 39 46 45 47 44 47 40 41 47 45 43 Lo 38 27 27 40 21 30 37 34 35 30 26 31 30 36 39 40 31 33 34 39 25 39 31 28 39 35 28 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r c sn r sn c r c sh c c c c r r r r sh c r sn r c c r c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 42 75 64 44 69 37 39 56 37 84 51 Lo 20 64 48 35 41 34 27 40 23 74 42 W s s s pc s i pc pc s s c Sat. Hi 43 74 66 44 71 37 38 52 44 83 51 Lo 25 66 49 41 43 28 29 39 36 67 44 W s c s pc s c pc t pc t s WINDS Medford 50/37 0.00" 0.96" 1.19" 8.76" 7.90" 8.47" SUN AND MOON Dec 9 Bend 48/30 Burns 42/21 PRECIPITATION Dec 3 John Day 49/34 Ontario 39/27 26° 30° 9° (2014) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 50/42 Eugene 51/39 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 42° 26° Spokane Wenatchee 41/31 39/28 Tacoma Moses 49/39 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 41/31 43/33 49/42 47/39 43/30 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 48/43 48/36 Lewiston 48/35 Astoria 48/34 51/42 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/43 Pendleton 44/29 The Dalles 49/34 48/35 49/36 La Grande Salem 46/32 51/42 Corvallis 51/41 HIGH 46° 25° Seattle 49/42 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 48° 30° Friday, December 1, 2017 Klamath Falls 47/28 (in mph) Today Saturday Boardman Pendleton SW 3-6 W 4-8 SSW 4-8 SW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today. A shower in spots in central parts; periods of rain across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today and tonight. Eastern Washington: Cloudy today. Mostly cloudy tonight; a bit of snow in the mountains. Cascades: Cloudy today. Overcast tonight with a little snow. Western Washington: Periods of rain today; arriving in the afternoon across the south. Northern California: Partly sunny today, except more clouds in central parts. 0 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 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Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Dec 26 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 1 -10s The last of three Elgin residents charged in a 2016 elk-poaching case was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to three counts. Nathan Crouch pleaded guilty to two counts of taking wildlife illegally, one count of wasting Crouch wildlife and one count of hunting with artificial light in the November 2016 incident. In addition to the jail term, Crouch’s hunting privileges will be suspended for eight years. He will be on probation for three years after serving his jail term. Two other people, Dylan Crouch (Nathan’s brother) and Brianna Black, pleaded guilty in January to aiding and sharing in the proceeds of a wildlife violation. Their hunting privileges were suspended until May 2020. Both were also sentenced to five days in jail and to 36 months of bench probation. The case started when two bull elk were found on private property east of Elgin. The three suspects were named in an Oregon State Police press release. Black was contacted by OSP, and she admitted that she was in the vehicle with the Crouch brothers during the poaching. According to an affidavit, Black said Nathan Crouch jumped out of the vehicle and shot the two bull elk, while Dylan Crouch federal spending by 6.9 percent. “When we received our timber payments in January for fiscal year 2016, we were shocked to find they were short by 6.9 percent,” said Douglas County Commissioner Tim Freeman. “Our budgets are already under terrible pressure and the sequestration made a bad situation even worse.” The cuts happen when U.S. govern- ment spending exceeds certain budget caps. The counties have struggled from a sharp decline in logging over the past several decades. Douglas County was even forced to close its libraries this year because of lack of public funds. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday the BLM will issue payments in The Lounge Saturday December 2nd, from 7 pm - 10 pm. No Cover Charge. 541-276-6111 Red Lion Lounge • 304 SE Nye, Pendleton 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain will dampen the southeastern corner of the nation, while snow showers riddle the northern Rockies today. Rain will soak western Washington and north- western Oregon. Most other areas will be dry. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 85° in Edinburg, Texas Low -1° in Lake Yellowstone, Wyo. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 60 67 55 56 50 68 45 51 73 54 51 47 72 60 46 69 8 44 83 76 53 81 57 69 63 74 Lo 40 51 37 31 32 44 31 31 53 31 37 32 54 31 33 44 3 24 74 51 32 55 37 49 40 54 W pc pc pc s pc pc pc s pc s s s pc pc s pc pc pc c s s pc s s s s Sat. 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Hi 54 66 82 51 48 61 73 48 71 56 51 81 42 47 56 55 56 59 62 59 69 60 47 80 55 63 Lo 34 43 69 34 33 35 53 36 51 35 35 57 26 29 35 30 34 41 41 46 54 50 39 51 37 46 W s pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc s pc s pc pc pc pc c c s pc s c r pc pc pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com used a spotlight to freeze the elk since it was before sunrise. Dylan Crouch countered that it was Black who spotlighted the animals, but corroborated that his brother shot the elk. It’s illegal in Oregon to spotlight an elk or other big game animal. The meat could not be salvaged by the time law enforcement got to the scene, police said. During OSP’s investigation, it was discovered that Nathan Crouch had also unlawfully taken a large bull elk in Union County a few years prior to the 2016 incident. The antlers from the bull elk were located and seized by troopers. Nathan Crouch, who had fled to Nevada, according to the affidavit, was eventually arrested in October and jailed. 18 timber counties to get $1.4M in federal payments ROSEBURG (AP) — Financially strapped counties in western Oregon that rely on logging revenue will receive nearly $1.4 million that had been withheld by the federal govern- ment due to budget caps, authorities said Thursday. The Association of O&C Counties — commonly called the “timber coun- ties” — said Thursday the counties will see the funds soon. The 18 counties customarily receive a share of timber receipts from logging on 2.1 million acres to compensate them for the loss of revenue when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management took over the acreage. But nearly 7 percent was withheld in 2016 because of a government-wide mandate to cut 0s showers t-storms Third suspect sentenced for role in 2016 elk poaching By CHERISE KAECHELE The La Grande Observer -0s totaling $19.5 million to the 18 coun- ties, including the $1.4 million. “My next priority is ensuring that these lands continue to provide sustain- able timber harvests that support the community and strengthen the health of the forest,” Zinke said in a statement. Freeman, who is also president of the Association of O&C Counties, credited Zinke for working with the association to persuade the Office of Management and Budget to release the sequestered funds. U.S. Congressman Greg Walden, a Republican from Hood River, said the money “will be critical to funding essential county services from law enforcement and emergency operations to schools and infrastructure projects.” Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 • fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com BRIEFLY Columbia Gorge fire fully contained PORTLAND (AP) — A wildfire that ignited in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge this summer has been declared 100 percent contained. Rachel Pawlitz, spokeswoman for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, told The Oregonian/ OregonLive on Thursday that some hot spots might be smoldering, but the blaze isn’t going to grow beyond its perimeter. The blaze that started Sept. 2 forced evacuations, closed an interstate highway, and scorched more than 75 square miles. Many trails remain closed, but the Multnomah Falls Lodge reopened Wednesday. Authorities say the fire was started by a 15-year-old boy playing with fireworks. He’s been charged with reckless burning. Residents claim regional jail is violating sanctuary law PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon lawyer argues that a regional jail is violating a sanctuary state law by incarcerating detainees of immigration officials. KOPB-FM reported Wednesday that a group of northern Oregon residents filed a lawsuit against Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facilities in July that claims that the jail is violating a state law which prohibits using public money, equipment or personnel to detected or apprehend people only for being in the country without legal permission. Wilford Carey, the jail’s attorney, argues that the facility simply houses detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a contract between the two and does not detect, detain or arrest anyone. David Henretty, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, claims it is incarceration rather than housing. The judge is expected to rule on the lawsuit before Christmas. 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